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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com



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Implement TAPE STACKING with INDEX REORG

The customer has requested, as a cost saving, that we reduce the number of tapes created each week. In the AUTOMATION tool for Tablespace Reorgs we have an option for TAPE STACKING which we use. However, when we generate INDEX reorg jobs there is ...
about 6 years ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Controller Web should be able to run on Oracle

We are running the Cognos Controller 10.4.0 on oracle database12C release 1 but unfortunately that the controller web is not support on Oracle database. Therefore, we cannot use controller web at all even for the users in the oversea who is not ne...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Add support for Oracle DB configured with Oracle Wallet

Connect to Oracle DB configured with Oracle Wallet. Requested during POC, still not available in the Watson Studio. The feature is required as all our Oracle DB is configure with Oracle Wallet. We need this to be supported. • Version of your WSL =...
about 6 years ago in Watson Studio 1 Not under consideration

Additional Feature in Symphony existing commands

Is it possible to have some enhancement in our existing symphony commands like soamview session or soamview task where we can ask IBM to add more information related to job termination and Pending reasons like below examples . And Job submission t...
about 6 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.0.2 3 Not under consideration

ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN diagnostic log record needs more information to be useful

The ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN diagnostic log record (type = 0x4400, subtype = 0x0083) lacks two crucial pieces of information as of DB2 V11 beta. 1. The inline length of the column if the added column is a LOB data type. 2. An indication that the col...
over 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

AODA - Avoid using tables to format text documents in columns unless the table can be linearized

The message was generated from Dynamic Assessment Plugin which is a tool to check accessibility. The tool is recommending not to use tables to format text in columns as the table cannot be linearized which is affecting WCAG section 1.3.2. However,...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Package Web Interface

When a developer specially anyone with limited knowledge attempts to try DB2 in a container or developer edition, there is no reference to documents and no GUI to work with. IBM websites and information/terminology I wouldn't call is easy to find ...
over 6 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Limiting the query data size in LSF

We recently experienced problems with mbatchd due to the size of the query data. The following is IBM support team's comments. Based on query_info.log last Saturday, I saw many lines with same data size during 1 second. Each line indicates 1 query...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Add columns to the RTS tables

The two real-time Statistics tables in the DB2 catalogue have lots of useful data. But they would much more useful if they had some additional columns: SYSIBM.SYSTABLESPACESTATS#1 #Times row was updated since defined.#2 #Times row was updated sinc...
almost 13 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Reports MDM ADMIN Missing Users

for any user that does not belong to the "mdm admin" group. Even internal groups can see limited lists if they are not part of the "mdm admin" group. This "mdm admin" group is the one typically found in the mpi_grphead table with a grprecno 1. T...
over 6 years ago in Master Data Management 1 Not under consideration